ghost of miles

Before And After With Walter Smith III A great in-depth conversation with Dan Bilawsky for JazzTimes’ “Before And After” listening session. (Both have Indiana University connections, so pardon any partisan bias on my behalf. )

I traveled back in time to chat with Duke about his score for the film Anatomy Of A Murder. My Interview With Duke Ellington ... it's a sort of supplement to last week's Night Lights show.

With Albert Dailey, just a couple of months before his death:

Last week's show, exploring Ellington's score for the 1959 Otto Preminger film Anatomy Of A Murder and Lewis' score for Robert Wise's Odds Against Tomorrow, made the same year, is up for online listening: Black Composers In Hollywood: Duke Ellington and John Lewis, 1959

I think The Herbie Hancock Columbia 1972-88 Columbia box (34 CDs) is the most voluminous set I have around the house. Btw several new copies of it seem to be around online right now at really good prices.

I have both of these sets and am long overdue to revisit them, though I think I did play the Brown box through again a few years ago. My distant recollection is that it seemed to be a lot of each particular artist at first, but not so much that I regretted buying either set. I've got a soft spot for the club blues sound, so I've probably taken the Brown down off the shelf more than the Milburn over the years (though "In The Middle Of The Night," that's Milburn, right? Damn, that's a good one... he did club blues too). Some might be content with the two excellent compilations that you posted above, drawn from the same body of work.

I wonder how many people in general are still alive who saw all three. Roy Haynes, obviously (he *played* with two of them--did he ever gig with Billie?), Sonny Rollins, and Dan Morgenstern come to mind in terms of jazz world figures; I'm sure there are some others--fans who were teenagers when JATP was on the road in the late 1940s and throughout much of the 1950s.

Larry Kart recently mentioned having seen Lester Young at a mid-1950s JATP concert iirc.

Me too! As well as the followup, Filigree And Shadow.

Those tracks also show up on the Tristano Proper set from 2003. I *think* the four solo piano sides might have also popped up on one of the Tristano estate's Jazz Records releases, but don't have the CD at hand to check. Didn't realize that Masters of Jazz had done Tristano titles... what a great series that was!

Agreed!

Iirc his first set was the Mildred Bailey back around 2000 or so--he's produced several dozen sets, actually! And gotten three Grammy nominations, for the Bix/Tram/Teagarden collection, the Woody Herman Columbia box, and the Lester Young/Count Basie on Columbia set.

From this morning’s Weekend Edition: Ukrainian jazz club won’t shut down

Upping this in honor of Mingus' centennial today, and because we're re-airing it this week on Night Lights stations: Word From Mingus

Sorry to hear that--I mostly knew of him through his outstanding work on Mad Men.

This excellent compilation:

I don't have Mark Miller's Herbie Nichols bio at hand, but did either of the Nichols trios that made the mid-1950s Blue Note records ever play live? Also, do any of the electric Miles studio records from the late 1960s into the early/mid 1970s include configurations that never performed live? (The concept seems to potentially reverse there, at least with the "Lost Quintet," into "bands that played live but never recorded in the studio.")

Revisiting this warhorse from the Fantasy catalogue (speaking of which, I really miss the old print Fantasy catalogues that circulated in the 1990s and into the 2000s. I think I have one or two stashed in a box somewhere… used to love flipping through those and circling titles in which I was interested).

...and apparently they have moved beyond contemplation. According to Scott, a Mosaic set covering 1950-57 will be out at the end of this year. More details to come eventually, I'm sure.

Now pre-ordered. Looking forward to doing a Night Lights show based around this set.

We re-aired Sweet Smell of Success: Jazz Meets Showbiz Noir this past week, and it remains archived for online listening.

Seeing her tonight at Bloomington's Buskirk-Chumley Theater:

Peak 80s art pop: ... an excellent retrospective of the band's initial 1980s run. This is one of those collections I revisit every couple of years. Was fortunate to see them on the Mirror Moves tour in 1984. For my money their best albums are Forever Now and Talk Talk Talk, but everything's sparkling through Mirror Moves, and this set gathers a goodly amount of the better songs they laid down after 1984 as well. (I remember hearing "All That Money Wants" on the radio when it came out in 1988 and thinking "Damn, this is quite an FU to Midnight To Midnight"--their most recent and most commercially successful album, but one that left them feeling that they'd taken a vacuous, soul-depleting turn.)

Hey Dan, the Night Lights show about Percy France is mentioned in this morning's Mosaic Jazz Gazette.